ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — Six of the nine administrative charges brought against borough police Lt. Scott Mura should have resulted in a punishment, according to a recently released report from the disciplinary hearing officer hired by the borough.

The report, written by retired Superior Court Judge Robert Guida, was released as a part of a residents’ lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Borough Council’s 2016 decision to dismiss the six remaining charges. Those charges, Guida wrote, should have resulted in Mura serving a 130-day suspension without pay.

“They had the report, they should have been deliberating over the report, and instead they chose to ignore it completely,” said Carin Geiger, who filed the suit in state Superior Court alongside former Democratic council members Joseph Favaro and Melanie Simon.

Guida’s report has resurrected concerns about how the council handled Mura’s case. Mura, a 21-year veteran of the Englewood Cliffs police, was accused two years ago of conducting an unauthorized investigation into dismissed parking tickets, improperly running a background check on his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend, and lying on four occasions.

The council dismissed the administrative charges because the Englewood Cliffs police department "went on a witch hunt of one of their own" rather than address the issue Mura had raised — namely, that of ticket fixing, Mayor Mario Kranjac wrote in an email on Friday. Other allegations against Mura lacked proof, Kranjac wrote.

"Unlike the chief and his political supporters, I will not convict or discipline ... anyone unless the evidence and process are clear and pure in all respects — which clearly was not the case in the tainted Mura matter," Kranjac wrote.

Kranjac also wrote Guida was not provided with a recording of a phone call in which Cioffi ordered the tickets in question to be voided.

Mura filed his own lawsuit against the borough in December 2015, claiming he had been retaliated against by Police Chief Michael Cioffi for investigating the dismissed parking tickets. He settled with the borough last month, and received $110,000 and a retroactive promotion to captain, provided he retires and does not work for the borough in the future.

The report’s release caps a tumultuous week in which Cioffi, the police chief, was also brought before the Borough Council to answer accusations that he had disclosed confidential information about borough employees during the disclosure of evidence for his own lawsuit against the borough.

Filed in federal court last August, Cioffi’s suit is one of about a half-dozen pending against the borough or the police department and its officers.